Cells:   

• 1a.  How are animals and plants similar?
• 1b.  What distinguishes a plant cell from an animal cell?
• 1c.  What is the nucleus?
• 1d.  What do mitochondria and chloroplasts do?
• 1e.  Describe mitosis.
• 1f.  What is differentiation?
• 7d.  Draw and label a eukaryotic cell

Astronomy and Light: 

• 6a.  What is the electromagnetic Spectrum?  Draw it and show where visible light may be found.
• 6c.  Explain why a pencil appears to “shift” in a glass of water
• 6e.  What is white light?
• 6f.  How does light interact with matter?
• 6g.  Explain the Law of Reflection. 
• 6b.  How are we able to see?
• 6d.  How does a lens work?
• 5g.  Draw and label the human eye.

Geology and Evolution:

• 3a.  What are some major causes of Evolution?
• 3b.  How did Darwin come up with his conclusion that natural selection is the mechanism for evolution?
• 3c.  What is the Theory of Evolution based upon?
• 3d.  Construct a simple branching diagram to classify lining groups of organisms by shared derived characteristics, and expand the diagram to include fossil organisms.
• 3e.  How does the extinction of a species occur?
• 4b.  How has the history of Earth been effected on a large scale?
• 3c/4e.  How do fossils help support the Evolution theory?
• 4a.  How are scientists able to obtain information about the past just by looking at the geology of the land?
• 4c.  When looking at new sediment and rocks, why are older rocks usually found on the bottom?
• 4d.  How old is the Earth, and how do we know?
• 4f.  How has geology affected the distribution of organisms?
• 4g.  How would you explain significant developments and extinctions of plant and animal life on the geologic time scale?

Plants:

• 5a.  What are the levels of organization for structure and function of plants and animals?
• 5b.  What makes up an organ system?
• 5f.  How do plants generate pollen and ovules, seeds and fruit?

Heredity:

• 2a.  What is the difference between the life cycles and reproduction of sexual and asexual organisms?
• 2b.  How are offspring created that inherit half of their genes from each parent?
• 2c.  How is an inherited trait determined?
• 2d.  Explain and give an example of how Dominant and Recessive alleles work.
• 2e.  What is DNA and where is it located?

Invertebrates:  No questions from standards.

Vertebrates and Skeletal Structure:

• 5c.  How do muscles and bones work together?
• 5d.  How does sexual activity lead to fertility and pregnancy?
• 6h.  Compare the joints in the body to simple machines.
• 6i.  Compare levers to the muscular system.
• 5g.  Draw the human ear and explain how it works.

Ecology:

• 5e.  What affects the number and types of organisms an ecosystem can support?

Circulatory System:

• 6j.  How does the heart work?